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Christmas at the White House – Antique Print

Christmas at the White House — historic photograph
Christmas at the White House. Historic photograph from the White House collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Christmas at the White House comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Christmas at the White House

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The White House received its holiday dress in 1938, when the Executive Mansion was filled with Christmas decorations during the Franklin D. Roosevelt years. The record names the building itself and its decorations as the subject, so the picture is less about a single ornament than about the state rooms being readied for the season. Holiday displays at the mansion were a long-standing public ritual, and this photograph captures one of the more formal moments of the Depression-era presidency, when the house was both a family home and a national stage. The print is a useful glimpse of how the building looked to visitors at the close of the 1930s.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1938
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1930-1940. Christmas decorations--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,268 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204325

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